Dhaka –Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a review by chief of a banned militant organization against his death penalty awarded for attacking a former envoy of the British High Commission to Bangladesh, officials said.

A panel of judges headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha rejected the plea by Abdul Hannan, the chief of banned outfit Harkat ul Jiahad Bangladesh, as the appeal court upheld his death sentence pronounced by a trial court.

Hannan, also known as Mufti Hannan, was sentenced to death for carrying out attack on the then British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury when he was visiting a shrine in Sylhet on May 21, 2004.

In December last year, the appeal court rejected an appeal filed by Hannan and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul seeking a review of the High Court verdict that upheld their death sentence.

The High Court verdict came on February 11, 2016 eight years after the Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal of Sylhet convicted three persons – Hannan, Sharif and Delwar Hossain Ripon – on December 23, 2008 with death for the attack that left three people dead and many others injured.